Corrections: August 5, 2015

Aug. 5, 2015

FRONT PAGE

An obituary on Saturday about Dr. Howard W. Jones Jr., who helped achieve the first birth through in vitro fertilization in the United States, misstated a circumstance in the case of his patient Henrietta Lacks, on whom he performed a biopsy in 1951 that led to a cancer diagnosis, and from whom other doctors removed cells that were then used in medical research. Ms. Lacks, who died later that year, did not “contend” that the cells had been taken and used without her permission. The obituary also referred incorrectly to an account of the matter by Rebecca Skloot in her book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” She also did not “contend” that the cells had been removed without Ms. Lacks’s knowledge; she said it was accepted fact that the cells had been removed without Ms. Lacks’s knowledge.

INTERNATIONAL

Because of an editing error, an article on July 25 about airstrikes by Turkish forces against three Islamic State targets in Syria misstated part of the name of a militant Kurdish group whose camps in northern Iraq were reportedly bombed by Turkish jets in a separate operation the same day. It is the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, not the Kurdish Workers’ Party.

NEW YORK

An article on Monday about the New York Department of Environmental Conservation’s role in a proposal to allow a mining company, NYCO Minerals, to operate on state-owned land in the Adirondacks misidentified the entity to which a NYCO spokesman was referring when he said that the department was acting as someone’s “negotiating agent.” He was referring to the state’s negotiating agent, not to NYCO’s.

BUSINESS DAY

The DealBook column on July 21, about potential conflicts for Supreme Court justices who own shares in companies with an interest in cases before the court, misstated the thrust of Hewlett-Packard’s brief in a patent case involving Teva Pharmaceuticals. The brief was in support of the respondents in the case, not in support of Teva. (Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who owned Hewlett-Packard stock, ruled in favor of Teva.)

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An article on Saturday about the failure of trade negotiators to complete work on the Trans-Pacific Partnership misstated, in some editions, the position of Ildefonso Guajardo, Mexico’s secretary of economy, on car exports. He was taking a hard line against the export of Japanese cars with any less than 65 percent of their parts from T.P.P. countries, not on Mexican car and truck exports.

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An article on Monday about an agreement several retailers reached with the New York attorney general to stop selling realistic-looking toy guns, in accordance with New York State law, misstated the number of states that have laws restricting the sale of toy guns. It is a dozen, plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, not half a dozen.

SPORTS

An article in some editions on Saturday about the Yankees’ limited activity at the trading deadline misstated the given name of the outfielder the team acquired from the Seattle Mariners. He is Dustin Ackley, not Justin.

THE ARTS

Because of an editing error, a picture caption on Tuesday with a theater review of “Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green,” at the Here Arts Center in Manhattan, carried an erroneous credit. The picture, of J. Alphonse Nicholson, was taken by Nick Graetz, not by Dennis Cahlo.

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